Saturday, 16 November 2013

MEDJUGORJE CDF BOMBSHELL: THE SAINTS

MEDJUGORJE CDF BOMBSHELL: THE SAINTS

..from a recent letter
addressed to the Bishops conference of the United States of America the
faithful have learned that the Vatican has warned off public festivals
asserting the truth and or credibility of the apparitions of MEDJUGORJE...

...let us hear what
the wise the venerables and the humble saints have to say about faith and the
importance of obedience to the decrees of the Church in our journey or the way
of the cross...

"Although you perform many works, if you do
not deny your will and submit yourself, losing all solicitude about yourself
and your affairs, you will not make progress."

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he
treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark."

-St. John of the Cross

"Faith
has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in
hand.

Hold
firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and
you dissolve the unity of the Church.

--St. Thomas Aquinas

“Some
people want to look upon God with their eyes, as they look upon a cow, and want
to love God as they love a cow. Thus they love God for the sake of external
riches and of internal solace; but these people do not love God aright ...
Foolish people deem that they should look upon God as though He stood there and
they here. It is not thus. God and I are one in the act of knowing

--Meister
Eckhart

God
has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God
receives it.

--St. Augustine

Apart
from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

--Saint Rose of Lima

The
first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do
it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.

--Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

The will of the Bishop is the will of God

--Padre Pio

...and one poem which is not directly related to the
topic yet is a personal favourite and hints of why people are drawn to
apparitions as a symptom of loneliness and lack of love…

All
things desire –Thomas Aquinas

ALL THINGS DESIRE

All things desire to
be like God,
and infinite space is a mirror
that tries
to reflect His
body.

But it can’t.

All that infinite
existence can show us of Him
is only an atom of God’s
being.

God stood behind
Himself one night and cast a
brilliant shadow from which creation
came.

Even this shadow is
such a flame that
moths consume their selves in it every second -
with their sacred passion to possess
beautiful
forms.

Existence mirrors God
the best it can,
though how arrogant for any image in that mirror,
for any human being, to
think they know

His will;

for His will has
never been spoken,

His voice would
ignite
the earth’s wings

and all upon
it.

We invent truths
about God to protect ourselves
from the wolf’s cries we hear
and make.